Chapter 83
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Chapter 83: Causing an Earth-Shattering Uproar
Fang Lie’s wrath burned hot enough to scorch his lungs. Yet for his siblings’ safety, he choked it down, snarling, "Where are they? Why should I trust you?"
"Hah! Knew you’d ask!" The Zhou Family youth grinned, flinging four Shields toward him. "This doesn’t involve me, understand? Some expert made me deliver these. Said you’d recognize them."
Fang Lie caught the Thousand-Year Green Pine Shields – premium grade. Their energy signatures confirmed these were his siblings’ treasures.
"Bastards!" Murderous rage surged through him. Treasures like these stayed nurtured in one’s Qi Sea, growing stronger with Magic. For outsiders to seize them meant his Ice and Fire Poison Dragon siblings had been captured, possibly dead.
"Done!" Fang Lie spat through gritted teeth. "If I quit, they live?"
"Suppose so," the Zhou youth drawled, smugness oozing. Though claiming innocence, everyone knew his involvement – why else would he inherit the Arena Master title after Fang Lie’s withdrawal?
Fang Lie shot him a venomous glare before streaking off the Arena.
The crowd gaped, bewildered. Their secret method conversation left spectators clueless why the mighty Fang Lie fled without fighting.
"Since when does Fang Lie fear Zhous?"
"He humiliated their main successor before!"
"Those shields were first-rank treasures! Since when does a Great Pill Master sell out for pocket change?"
Meanwhile, Fang Lie followed the old bird’s guidance to the Cycle of Fire within the Ancestral Hall. Before the "Ren" Ancestor’s Token, he performed three kowtows and nine prostrations.
Normally, a candidate Token Lord couldn’t wield this power freely. Letting his own father die wouldn’t justify using it unless directly threatened. But kidnapping his siblings and threatening his Outer Sect Competition status? That crossed the line.
The rules allowed a candidate Lord to invoke the Ancestor’s Token when personally targeted. Gripping the relic, Fang Lie stepped into the hall, ready to unleash hell.
At this moment, in the main hall of the Ancestral Hall, a thirty-year-old Blue-Robed Cultivator sat meditating – today’s duty Law Enforcer. Sensing Fang Lie’s arrival, he opened his eyes and jolted in fright! Without delay, he rushed down from the dais, knees hitting the floor with a thud as he kowtowed. "Disciple Chang Qingliang pays homage to the Ancestor’s Token!"
By raising the Ancestor’s Token, Fang Lie represented the Benevolence Token Lord of Mo Sect. Every disciple seeing this token must kneel, lest they commit the grave sin of Betraying Sect and Ancestors – their fate resting entirely on Fang Lie’s word.
Even Purple Palace Master Chang Qingliang, despite his high status, had no choice but to kneel obediently.
"Enough formalities." Fang Lie waved dismissively, striding past the kneeling man to plant himself on the central hall’s main seat.
Chang Qingliang’s eye twitched as he bitterly thought: There goes my authority as Law Enforcer. When the roof’s low, you stoop – swallowing his discontent, he waited below, wondering what storm Fang Lie brought today.
The storm came immediately. After seating himself, Fang Lie issued an order that turned Chang Qingliang’s bones to ice: "Activate the full protective array! Lock down the entire Mo Sect! Deploy all Law Enforcement Heavenly Soldiers – comb every cranny of headquarters until my siblings are found!"
"What?!" Chang Qingliang’s knees nearly buckled. Activating the full protective array? That was reserved for catastrophic invasions! The array normally ran at 3% power, sufficient for daily operations. Full activation drained terrifying amounts of Nascent Soul energy, potentially exhausting ground veins and burning through emergency spirit stone reserves.
This would rouse every elder from closed-door training! Even the Clan Leader needed approval from four token lords for such action. Yet Fang Lie ordered it casually!
Worse came the next command – deploying all Law Enforcement Heavenly Soldiers. Madness! These soldiers formed from the Ancestral Hall’s formations numbered over one billion and eighty million when fully summoned – an ocean of enforcers meant for repelling invasions, not petty searches!
And searching everywhere? Mo Sect contained eight hundred family clans with secret vaults, plus countless spiritual mansions and immortal mansions housing private treasures. This would enrage every Higher-up! While the Benevolence Token Lord might be untouchable, Chang Qingliang himself would bear their wrath – a mere Law Enforcer was less than an ant to true Immortals.
Trembling, he protested: "Impossible! Even the Clan Leader dares not issue such orders!"
"Can’t or won’t?" Fang Lie sneered. "That coward fears offending people. I don’t. Since those dogs want a show, I’ll give them a spectacle! Let’s see who blinks first!"
Swinging the Benevolence Token, Fang Lie overrode all objections. With supreme authority over the protective array, his command triggered immediate action – no coalition of token lords could stop it now.
Colored light pillars erupted across Mo Sect’s ten-thousand-li territory, weaving a luminous canopy sealing the entire sect. No fly could enter or escape.
Millions of disciples panicked. "The protective array! Are we under attack?" Screaming crowds stampeded toward cave dwellings. Arena spectators scattered like startled birds, masters abandoning their posts.
Then came the unforgettable sight: Law Enforcement Heavenly Soldiers materializing like silver locusts – mountains upon mountains, seas upon seas of them, swarming through every alley and rooftop until the sky itself vanished beneath their numbers. The terrifying spectacle burned itself into every witness’s memory.
